New Horizons in Eastern Humanism - Buddhism, Confucianism and the Quest for Global Peace shakyamuni These 20 lectures in a

These 20 lectures in a single volume chart a clear path for those committed to achieving happiness for oneself and others

Shin'ichi Yamamoto (Daisaku Ikeda's pen name) realizes that achieving world peace would critically depend on building bonds of friendship with China and the former Soviet Union

But for millennia

In the eight inspiring essays featured in this book

New Horizons in Eastern Humanism - Buddhism, Confucianism and the Quest for Global Peace shakyamuni These 20 lectures in aChina now attracts global attention in direct proportion to its increasing economic and geopolitical power. But for millennia, the philosophy which has shaped the soul of China is not modern Communism, or even new forms of capitalism, but rather Confucianism. And one of the most striking phenomena relating to China's ascendancy on the world stage is a burgeoning interest, throughout Asia and beyond, in the humanistic culture and values that underlie